Institutes 3.11.14 — OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. BOTH THE NAME AND THE REALITY DEFINED.

**OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. BOTH THE NAME AND THE REALITY DEFINED.**

The Sophists, who delight in sporting with Scripture and in empty cavils, think they have a subtle evasion when they expound works to mean, such as unregenerated men do literally, and by the effect of free will, without the grace of Christ, and deny that these have any reference to spiritual works. French, “Ainsi ils disent que cela n’appartient de rien aux bonnes œuvres des fideles qui se font par la vertu du Sainct Esprit;”—Thus they say that has no reference at all to the good works of believers, which are done by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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